Author Archive: DeVonna J. Petree

Life Coach, Gifted Motivational Speaker, Founder and Creator of the I Am More Than A Baby Mama; I Am Love, Power, Strength and Respect Movement and its curriculum. DeVonna is an established Women & Girl Empowerment Advocate committed to the growth and empowerment of women, mothers, coaches, teachers, entrepreneurs and dreamers around the world through her powerful life changing transformational strategies and workshops. She is a Certified Dream Coach® and coaches her clients to discover their life’s purpose, release fear and outline strategies to aid in going confidentially toward the direction of their dreams and living a life fulfilled with Love and Happiness. She is the Founder and CEO of Tyunin’s Breakthrough, a highly successful non-profit organization committed to restoring joy, strengthening hope and providing growth opportunities into the lives of low-income single mothers and at-risk girls in underserved communities. She enables women with resources that invigorate the motivation to seek, plan, and achieve self-sufficiency, success and live the lives of their Dreams. DeVonna is devoted to helping women live extraordinary lives through personal and professional development. She hosts the “Get Out of your Dreams Way” Conference to teach women to step out of their comfort zone and build unstoppable courage in their careers, relationships, finances, physical and emotional lives. She is a wife and mother that truly loves her family and believes that LOVE conquers all things.

As we embark on a new year I encourage you to transition confidently into becoming who you are because in the process of becoming who you are, you begin to create your future. It recently dawned on me after I purchased the domain name for DeVonna Empowers You.com, created a public figure facebook page empowering […]

Will you choose a life of passion and purpose? I strongly believe that waking up every day doing the work you love and standing in your purpose is a pure Gift from God. It takes courage, strength and dedication to accept this Gift. If you’re uncertain of your passion, just take a moment and ask […]

“Reading your article stirred me to think deeper about the topic of self-love. Two things immediately came to mind: first, healthy self-love involves a personal journey of acceptance; and second, healthy self-love should ideally lead a person to want to share more love with others. Self-love is part of the process of learning to accept […]

Africa's First Ladies

It’s been eleven series since we first featured our first African First Lady at the beginning of 2012. Since then, we have garnered quite an impressive list of stories into the private and public lives of some of Africa’s most powerful women, including the causes that are dear to their hearts. What we have found […]

While researching the first lady featured this week, I was personally overjoyed to find that she not only is a first lady who embodies the ideal of today’s African woman, but she is also the youngest first lady on the African continent – in her mid-thirties. She is us! (The main AFRIKAN GODDESS MAGAZINE demographic […]

Claudine Dominique Ouattara is the current First Lady of Cote d’Ivoire, and founder of the Children of Africa Foundation, an organization which aims to assist distressed children in Africa not only through various charitable actions and donations, but also through sponsoring well-known and accountable charity groups. Claudine Dominique Ouattara was born on December 16th, 1953 […]

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Have you always wanted to know how to count from 1 to 20 in another language besides French and Spanish? Well, now you can. Ghanaian author and new mom, Sandra Amoako, has recently created the first book in the “What’s That?” series of bilingual, children’s books. “What’s That? My First Numbers in Twi and English” […]

The movie and music industry is rich with actors with high intellectual abilities such as Juliana Kanyomozi, Namubiru in Uganda. These females are loud and sexy. I bet you, it is almost impossible to watch a film without a sexual scene and one where the female is subordinate. Again there are very few advertisements without […]

Atekit is glued to the sofa reading a novel entitled “The Lion and the Jewel” by Wole Soyinka. She is preparing to sit for her final UCE exams at the end of the year. ‘The Concubine’, by Elechi Amadi; ‘Things Fall Apart’ by Chinua Achebe are part of the set of books examinable by the […]